For families

The newly designed children's room is a great place to linger. You can sit on the steps of a platform and read, play or listen to audio stories. The clothes and headgear can be tried on. It is also possible to make a silhouette. Please contact the Gleimhaus staff for this.

Contact: Susanne Wiermann
E-mail: gleimhaus.wiermann@halberstadt.de
Tel.: 03941 6871-0

Interactive discussion tour (duration: approx. 45 min): including trying on 18th century headgear. Thematic focus by arrangement. Alternatively, a tour of the respective special exhibition is also possible. From year 8: familiarise yourself with the “Temple of Friendship” using quotations from Gleim and his friends. There is also time for the practical element.

Practical elements with material costs:

• Making paper (€1/person)
• Making a leporello (1€/person)
• Drawing silhouettes using the (almost) original 18th century method with silhouette chair and stork's beak (€2/person)
• Making a friendship book (blank book block) (€2.50/person). Also available with pre-written and illustrated texts/poems that are bound into the book block (€3/person)
• Writing with a quill pen in the script of Gleim's time and getting to know an old letter folding technique (1€/person).

Poetry competition. Anna Louisa Karsch, a close friend of Gleim, was known for her original poetry, especially her end rhyme poems. Your class will be given a selection of end rhymes and rhyme schemes so that different poems can be created and recited. (1€/person)

Literary role play (without costume): Gleim.net analogue: Who is who? Communicating with letters and circulars. 4 hours. From 9th grade (5€/person)

Building a virtual world with CoSpaces Edu: In this digital workshop, participants can use a kit (CoSpaces) to create their own virtual world with reference to Gleim's timeless values. And all from a distance, without being present in the Gleimhaus. 4th to 6th grade: 2.5 hours (€2.50/person); 7th grade and above: 4 hours (€4/person).
All participants need good WiFi and their own PC/laptop with mouse or a tablet with an external keyboard and mouse. The Gleimhaus will provide instruction and support via Zoom. Maximum 10 participants

Discussion tour (1 - 1.5 hours / cost: €30 plus admission): Literature and socialising in the Age of Enlightenment, plus talking pictures. On request, robes with skirt and tricorn hat, frills and wig, photos with your mobile phone. Ideal group size: 15 participants. If necessary, your group can be divided and accompanied in parallel.

Cospaces: Virtual Gleim Worlds (duration: 2.5 hours / cost per person: €12): In this digital workshop, participants can use a kit (CoSpaces) to create a virtual world related to Gleim's values. And all from a distance, without being present in the Gleimhaus. The Gleimhaus will provide instruction and support via Zoom.
A maximum of 10 people can take part in the workshop, with a minimum of 5 participants.

The simulation game Streit (disagreement) (duration: 3 hours / cost: €50 plus admission): The poet Gleim is celebrated as a genius of friendship. His "Temple of Friendship" is considered a prime example of the friendship culture of the Enlightenment. But don't think that there were no arguments here!

Disputes are part of friendship and they are part of life. Disputes are an integral part of communication - both in the private and social sphere. It is unavoidable because people have different interests. And some say it is even important, as it harbours opportunities for rapprochement. The decisive factor is that it is dealt with constructively. The ability to argue is therefore a human and democratic virtue that makes living together easier. The workshop begins with an introduction to several quarrelsome figures and their disputes within Gleim’s “Temple of Friendship”. This serves as preparation for a conflict simulation game. A small workshop is available for school classes and colleges.

Network simulation game (duration: 3 hours / cost: €50 plus admission): Circle of friends, acquaintance, clique, community, society, network, co-operation, college, kinship, connection ... In our different areas of life, we operate in a variety of connections. The Gleimhaus is characterised by the spirit of friendship and cooperation. Friendship was an essential part of Gleim's life. Looking at individual networks in Gleim's Temple of Friendship and their mission serves as preparation for the simulation game. No previous knowledge required. With a team-building effect and fun factor. A small workshop is available for school classes and colleges.

If you don't understand where you come from, you can't change anything. We want to awaken interest in the present. To do this, we show a piece of the past. Because the two are connected and determine our future. Because many things were different in the Age of Enlightenment, which we are talking about here, but some things also remained the same.

You can find more information here: Info

MuseumStars Challenge about Dorothea Milde and her creative year 1920.

Simply download the app to your mobile phone or tablet, search alphabetically for Gleimhaus at museums, get started and get to know the otherwise inaccessible work of Dorothea Milde.
Dorothea Milde (1887-1964) was an artist who lived in Quedlinburg and bequeathed her estate to the Gleimhaus.

Have fun "collecting stars"!

Experience virtual intermediate worlds in which the Age of Enlightenment meets the present and play is combined with information. The rooms encourage reflection on the themes of history/present/future; friendship/love/relationships; information exchange; leisure/education/meaning of life. The prototype was created by a group of young people from Halberstadt and can be accessed individually at any time.info

The project was made possible by funding from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften und Gedenkstätten e.V. (Working group of Literary Societies and Memorials) with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.